This small shrub has smooth greyish stems and many spreading branchlets that form a compact rounded habit.  It has dark green needle-like leaves and the yellow flowers appear in a squat cylindrical spike throughout most of the year but mainly in summer.

Hardiness zones 9 to 10

Banksia pulchella is naturally found south-west Western Australia along the south coast from Culham Inlet to Israelite Bay near Esperance growing in heathland and mallee shrubland on flood plains or around granite outcrops. 

It prefers an open to exposed sunny position and it grows in very well-drained poor to moderately fertile white or grey sandy soils that are tending acidic. It is drought and salt spray tolerant but frost tender and dies after fire then regenerates from seed.

The Teasel Banksia is grown for its year-round flowers and its bushy habit. It is planted in small gardens along borders as a specimen for attracting birds or is grown in tubs and planter boxes. It is also found in botanical collections and is suitable coastal or inland regions, establishing in 3-4 years. This shrub is rarely cultivated and may be difficult to obtain requiring a specialist nursery. ID 3299

Banksia (BANK-see-a)  pulchella (pul-KEL-uh)

Proteaceae (pro-tee-AY-see-ee)
Protea Family